The company's fourth-quarter diluted earnings per share are expected to be about 10 percent lower than 1997 fourth-quarter earnings of $1.79. Analysts surveyed by First Call Corp. had predicted profits of $2.06 a share for the quarter.

Lockheed's stock tumbled on the news, losing $10.50, or 11 percent, to $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.

CNBC: Not To Worry

NEW YORK -- CNBC tried to put to rest an ethics controversy about a guest analyst, issuing rules to ensure that investment professionals don't use their appearances on its programs to line their pockets.

The rules issued Wednesday require that analysts disclose their trading in any stock they discuss. And they prohibit analysts from buying a stock, touting it on the network as a good investment, then selling it as soon as the price goes up -- a practice known on Wall Street as ``pump and dump.''

CNBC published the rules on its Internet site. It said they already existed informally, but it wrote them down to ease viewers' worries about conflicts of interest.

Have You Heard?

Working at home can give parents more flexibility as they care for their children. But according to Judith Lederman, who started her home-based marketing firm in 1989, it doesn't mean dispensing with child care altogether.

``The odd thing about important business calls is that they inevitably come at the very instant that the kids are clamoring for dinner, throwing tantrums or terrorizing each other,'' Lederman writes in Our Place, a newsletter for home- based working mothers.

Moreover, she says, children seem to know just when a business call is critical, and that's the moment that they seem to develop colic or start fighting with their siblings.

Work-at-home parents still need child care, but the good thing is that a home office allows parents ``to keep an eye on your children's caregivers and to take part in your children's lives.''